Pip Hinman

  • 'Aceh is the next East Timor' says visiting activist

    SYDNEY — The news that two Acehnese activists sought refuge in the Finnish embassy in Jakarta on April 10 didn't surprise Erwanto, an Acehnese activist currently visiting Australia. "Aceh is like hell on Earth", he said. "Already

  • Refugee royal commission petition a hit

    More than 10,100 people have signed an online petition supporting a call for a royal commission into the government's treatment of asylum seekers. Out of thousands of active petitions from all over the world listed on the

  • Dita Sari: defying Reebok and Megawati

    She is one of Asia's most significant trade union leaders. Dita Sari, the 30-year-old chairperson of the independent Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggles (FNPBI), achieved notoriety for her refusal to be bought off. Most

  • Sydney Palm Sunday committee continues exclusion policy

    The last time I was prevented from attending a political meeting was in Indonesia last June. The paramilitary police, together with their right-wing militia friends, shut down the Jakarta Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference

  • Refugee campaign builds up pressure on Howard

    Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific, Thang Ngo, Socialist Alliance (Parramatta), Newcastle Action for Refugee Rights, Refugee Action Collective (Melbourne central), Australia West Papua Association, Progressive Young Hazaras, PIP HINMAN">

  • Refugees: How far will Labor's soul searching go?

    The brave hunger strikers in Woomera and other immigration detention centres have sparked broad and growing opposition to the federal government's anti-refugee policies. Three months after a federal election campaign, in which the

  • Government slammed over press access to asylum seekers

    SYDNEY — The Australian Press Council on November 30 denounced the federal government's restrictions on media access to asylum seekers. Council chairperson Professor Ken McKinnon accused the government of "severely restricting the

  • Support grows for royal commission into refugee treatment

    SYDNEY — On the eve of immigration minister Philip Ruddock's departure for Geneva to attend a landmark ministerial meeting, beginning on December 12, of signatory states to the 1951 refugee convention, refugee rights activists have

  • Australia must act for West Papua

    SYDNEY — The November 10 assassination in Jayapura of West Papuan leader Theys Eluay drew condemnation from a wide range of public figures at a press conference in the NSW Parliament House here on November 15. Otto Ondawame, a

  • Which way forward for the anti-war movement?

    The September 11 terrorist attacks have given the capitalist rulers of the US and other imperialist powers an opening to win initial support from big sections of the working class for a war to crush all those in the Third World who

  • 'Only a movement can bring lasting change'

    As the bombing of Afghanistan continues and ground troops move in, many more are increasingly horrified at Bush and Howard's so-called "war on terrorism". Why is Australia going to war against one of the poorest countries in the

  • Howard ignores the lessons of Timor

    It doesn't come as much surprise that PM John Howard has been so quick to visit Jakarta. Barely a day after the new Indonesian cabinet was announced, Howard was on his way to make a deal with the Sukarnoputri-military government. In